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"My daughter, however, loves physics." - MARIE HOWE, Universe In Verse, Radiolab #Radiolab #NationalSonandDaughterDay #MarieHowe

Today's poem:

The Split
- by Marie Howe

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/774627355289370625/the-split?source=share

#poetry #MarieHowe #split #personality #agency #self #integrity #personhood

A long and wonderful found poem drawn from an On Being interview Krista Tippett did with poet Marie Howe by Rabbit Ableegumooch (a pen name).

Excerpt:

"Real time is true;
redundancy that’s happening now.
Remember those swaths of time between high holy seasons:
Ordinary time.
Nothing dramatic is happening;
this is where we’re living.

Finally we’re stopped long enough
to feel ourselves alive."

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/09/rabbit-ableegumooch-poetry-of-ordinary.html

#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #MarieHowe #time #life

🤮 New Book ‘Unhumans’ 🤮

#JDVance and the language of #Genocide

#Trump's VP pick endorses the tactic of #Dehumanization

“You Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language" – #MarieHowe

In the latest example of his dangerous extremism, J.D. Vance has enthusiastically promoted a book that uses genocidal language to stoke hatred

#Unhumans is a twisted political incantation by right-wing conspiracy theorists Jack #Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, designed to inspire hatred and terror.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-vance-and-the-language-of-genocide

J.D. Vance promotes a new book that uses genocidal language to stoke hatred toward liberals.

Unhumans, by right-wing conspiracy theorists Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, offers a sinister thesis: Progressive-minded Americans are not humans. Instead, they are "communists." In turn, the authors define communists as bloodthirsty "unhumans" hellbent on the destruction of civilization.
Right-wingers, they write, must stop these unhumans with a policy of “exact reciprocity.” This means doing exactly to these so-called unhumans what the authors claim the unhumans are planning to do to them.
The 283-page screed reads like an effort to incite a civil war. It strains to create a sense of urgent terror in its readers. On nearly every page, it demonizes and dehumanizes “the left”– a vaguely defined group that apparently includes journalists (“the unhuman-occupied media”) and people who believe in things like diversity, equity, social justice and the rule of law. The definition is so broad that it seems most Democrats would qualify as unhumans.

Cover art for "Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Stop Them." Foreword by imprisoned Trump advisor Stephen K. Bannon.
“You’ll notice throughout this book the persistent, perennial unhuman obsession with clichéd sociopolitical objectives like ‘fairness’ and ‘equality,'" the authors write. "I am equal to you, the have-nots always say to the haves.”
Apparently, any American concerned with equality and fairness also qualifies as unhuman. After all, the authors say, unhumans are everywhere

"Anyway, I don't know anything about science!" - MARIE HOWE, Universe In Verse, Radiolab #Radiolab #NationalScienceDay #MarieHowe

What have we made? What are we making?

Chainsaw
Marie Howe

#Poetry #MarieHowe #Chainsaw #Environment #HomoFaber

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160015/chainsaw

What we did to the earth, we did to our daughters
one after the other.

What we did to the trees, we did to our elders
stacked in their wheelchairs by the lunchroom door.

What we did to our daughters, we did to our sons
calling out for their mothers.

Marie Howe
Postscript

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160014/postscript-64271592ebbd2

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #Poem #MarieHowe

Few of us knew what the bird calls meant

Postscript
Marie Howe

#MarieHowe #Postscript #Poetry #Earth #Environment

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160014/postscript

Today's poem:

The Split
- by Marie Howe

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/712490318706114560/the-split?source=share

#poetry #self #facets #characteristics #personality #MarieHowe #awareness #personhood #independence #timidity #daring #feistiness

Part of Eve's Discussion by Marie Howe

It was like the moment when a bird decides not to eat from your hand,
and flies, just before it flies, the moment the rivers seem to still
and stop because a storm is coming, but there is no storm . . .

https://poets.org/poem/part-eves-discussion

#TodaysPoem #ProsePoem #ProsePoetry #Poetry #Poem #MarieHowe